WSJ's Spencer Ante has details of a $2.2 billion government program to give cell phones to poor people that resulted in phones winding up in the hands of people ineligible for the program.

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I ... the earphone builders are things in the fees called universal service fee ... was actually that money goes to help pay for ... a number of government programs including the lifeline program ... which has been set up to help subsidize filters for for people in America ... read a story on page one of the Wall Street Journal today showing that ... millions of subscribers of the lifeline program are actually not eligible ... to receive those funds ... the SCC ... it's taking action on the slasher they launched a reform effort designed to ... weed out a lot of the NL it's a will subscribers ... they actually estimated about fifty percent ... of subscribers and be weeded out because of the reforms ... but we found ... unworthy without that five the top companies to provide LifePoint servers ... forty one percent ... of more than six million subscribers are actually going to be removed from the program ... the FTC believes that this ... reform effort would shave about two hundred million dollars last year ... could save up to two billion dollars over the next three years ... as companies like eighteen T and Verizon and Sprint and track phone ... scrub their subscriber rolls and remove all the people who are not eligible to receive the phone ... so